Zekharyah, starting at chapter 10
{10:1} Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time,
The LORD who makes storm clouds,
And he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
{10:2} For the terafim have spoken vanity,
and the diviners have seen a lie;
And they have told false dreams.
They comfort in vain.
Therefore they go their way like sheep.
They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.
{10:3} My anger is kindled against the shepherds,
And I will punish the male goats;
For the LORD of Hosts has visited his flock, the house of Yehudah,
And will make them as his horse in the battle that he is proud of.
{10:4} From him will come forth the corner-stone,
From him the nail,
From him the battle bow,
From him every ruler together.
{10:5} They shall be as mighty men,
Treading down muddy streets in the battle;
And they shall fight, because the LORD is with them;
And the riders on horses will be confounded.
{10:6} "I will strengthen the house of Yehudah,
And I will save the house of Yosef,
And I will bring them back;
For I have mercy on them;
And they will be as though I had not cast them off:
For I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them.
{10:7} Efrayim will be like a mighty man,
And their heart will rejoice as through wine;
Yes, their children will see it, and rejoice.
Their heart will be glad in the LORD.
{10:8} I will signal for them, and gather them;
For I have redeemed them;
And they will increase as they have increased.
{10:9} I will sow them among the peoples;
And they will remember me in far countries;
And they will live with their children, and will return.
{10:10} I will bring them again also out of the land of Mitzrayim,
And gather them out of Ashshur;
And I will bring them into the land of Gil`ad and Levanon;
And there won't be room enough for them.
{10:11} He will pass through the sea of affliction,
And will strike the waves in the sea,
And all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
And the pride of Ashshur will be brought down,
And the scepter of Mitzrayim will depart.
{10:12} I will strengthen them in the LORD;
And they will walk up and down in his name," says the LORD.
{11:1} Open your doors, Levanon,
That the fire may devour your cedars.
{11:2} Wail, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen,
Because the stately ones are destroyed.
Wail, you oaks of Bashan,
For the strong forest has come down.
{11:3} A voice of the wailing of the shepherds!
For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions!
For the pride of the Yarden is ruined.
{11:4} Thus says the LORD my God: "Feed the flock of slaughter.
{11:5} Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell
them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich;' and their own
shepherds don't pity them. {11:6} For I will no more pity the
inhabitants of the land," says the LORD; "but, behold, I will deliver
the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his
king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not
deliver them."
{11:7} So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of
the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called "Favor," and
the other I called "Union," and I fed the flock. {11:8} I cut off the
three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their
soul also loathed me. {11:9} Then I said, "I will not feed you. That
which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut off, let it be cut
off; and let those who are left eat each other's flesh." {11:10} I
took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant
that I had made with all the peoples. {11:11} It was broken in that
day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it
was the word of the LORD. {11:12} I said to them, "If you think it
best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them." So they weighed for my
wages thirty pieces of silver. {11:13} The LORD said to me, "Throw it
to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!" I
took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in the
house of the LORD. {11:14} Then I cut apart my other staff, even
Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Yehudah and Yisra'el.
{11:15} The LORD said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the
equipment of a foolish shepherd. {11:16} For, behold, I will raise up
a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those who are cut off,
neither will seek those who are scattered, nor heal that which is
broken, nor feed that which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the
fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in pieces. {11:17} Woe to the
worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm,
and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his
right eye will be totally blinded!"
{12:1} An oracle. The word of the LORD concerning Yisra'el. The
LORD, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the
[1>]eretz[<1], and forms the spirit of man within him says: {12:2}
"Behold, I will make Yerushalayim a cup of reeling to all the
surrounding peoples, and on Yehudah also will it be in the siege
against Yerushalayim. {12:3} It will happen in that day, that I will
make Yerushalayim a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who
burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the
nations of the [2>]eretz[<2] will be gathered together against it.
{12:4} In that day," says the LORD, "I will strike every horse with
terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the
house of Yehudah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with
blindness. {12:5} The chieftains of Yehudah will say in their heart,
'The inhabitants of Yerushalayim are my strength in the LORD of Hosts
their God.' {12:6} In that day I will make the chieftains of Yehudah
like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves;
and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand
and on the left; and Yerushalayim will yet again dwell in their own
place, even in Yerushalayim. {12:7} The LORD also will save the tents
of Yehudah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory
of the inhabitants of Yerushalayim not be magnified above Yehudah.
{12:8} In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like
David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the
LORD before them. {12:9} It will happen in that day, that I will seek
to destroy all the nations that come against Yerushalayim. {12:10} I
will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of
Yerushalayim, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will
look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as
one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one
grieves for his firstborn. {12:11} In that day there will be a great
mourning in Yerushalayim, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the
valley of Megiddon. {12:12} The land will mourn, every family apart;
the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the
family of the house of Natan apart, and their wives apart; {12:13} the
family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family
of the Shim`i apart, and their wives apart; {12:14} all the families
who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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Footnotes:
[1] {12:1} earth
[2] {12:3} earth
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